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[11.10] Inconsistent reporting of passenger numbers

Started by MCollett, September 28, 2013, 04:18:01 AM

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MCollett

This is a few years into a passenger-only network.

The Finance window 'Transported' chart claims that twice in the last year there have been brief but catastrophic collapses in the number of passengers carried.

The '%passengers' chart from the City list window agrees with the twice, but says that the periods of reduced numbers are slightly later and rather longer.

But the bottom line has no trace of either version of the story.  Even a 50% reduction in passengers would be more than enough to wipe out all profits, but there is only a small dip around the time of the second supposed collapse, while the time of the first actually coincides with a period of high profitability.  And I'm sure I would have noticed if all my trains and busses were running empty for a couple of months.

Clearly something is fishy about the way the numbers of people carried are being collected, stored or reported.

Edit:  I realised after posting that there is inconsistency even in the stable periods.  Each month, the total number of passengers carried is of the order of 100,000, out of a total generated in the region (according to the city list chart) of around 450,000.  That's about 22%, but the passenger percentage is reported as only half that (11%).

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I've noticed some oddities with that particular graph, too, so this may not be an isolated incident.

jamespetts

Thank you for the report. I am somewhat reluctant to delve too deeply into passenger generation issues in the 11.x branch, as a major overhaul of passenger generation is in progress for the next version (on the passenger-generation branch in Github). It is probably best to wait and see whether things are any different when the next major version is out to avoid the risk of duplication of work.
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